''Taxi Chor'' () is a 1980

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Indian

action film Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist is thrust into a series of events that typically involve violence and physical feats. The genre tends to feature a mostly resourceful hero struggling against incredible odds, which include life ...

directed by ''Sushil Vyas'', starring

Mithun Chakraborty Mithun Chakraborty (born Gouranga Chakraborty; 16 June 1950) is an Indian actor, producer and politician who predominantly worked in Hindi and Bengali language films. He is a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament. He is the recipient of three ...

(in double role),

Zarina Wahab Zarina Wahab is an Indian actress who predominantly worked in Hindi and Malayalam films. Known for critically acclaimed roles in '' Chitchor'' and '' Gopal Krishna'' in Hindi and Malayalam cinema with films like ''Madanolsavam'', '' Chamaram'' ...

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and

Jagdeep Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jaffrey (29 March 1939 – 8 July 2020), better known by his stage name Jagdeep, was an Indian actor and comedian who appeared in more than 400 films. He played Soorma Bhopali in ''Sholay'' (1975), Machchar in ''Purana Mandir ...

Plot

A mother gives birth to their twins children named as Rajesh and Ritesh and also a girl who was younger sister of them. Shamsher Singh is wanted smuggler who gets arrested by the twins father. And when he is released he want to take revenge on him and one day when he was going in car he and his gang attacks on him and he kills him on off and both the twin children are separated and their sister is being killed one goes to city and becomes a singer and another one becomes a wanted thief. Rajesh is a crook. But one day Ritesh is rescued from the jail and he for she goes to find the truth why he was arrested and learns that it was because of his lookalike thief. And one day Rakesh's mother comes doubt on him. And he give give influence to Rakesh for doing all this works. When Rakesh was going to his daily work his mother follows him and he goes to grave and when he finds doing all those things he is shocked and fell down by dizziness by seeing all those things from his son. After that he removes a big pit and tries to cheer her when she is alive before that Ritesh stops him and they both start fighting when Rajesh mother's getups she sees both of them fighting and she also discovers that Ritesh is her son and stops both of them. She tells them what happened when they were children and the brothers kill Anthony and his gang. Before Anthony dies he shoots Rakesh and the police comes and arrest the gangsters. Rakesh falls into his mother's hand, tells Ritesh that take care of his mother and dies.

Cast

as Rajesh a.k.a Rakesh / Ritesh (double role) *

as Ruby (Ritesh's girlfriend) *

Raj Mehra Raj Mehra 20 May 1913 1993), was an Indian character artist and film actor in Hindi language films, especially known for his role as a father of leading actors. During his career, he worked in over 300 Hindi films. Some of his popular roles a ...

Abhi Bhattacharya Abhi Bhattacharya (20 November 1921 – 11 August 1993) was an Indian actor of Hindi and Bengali cinema, who is most remembered for his roles in films of the 1950s and the 1960s, such as '' Yatrik'' (1952), '' Jagriti'' (1954), '' Anuradha'' ...

* Madan Puri as Shamsher Singh / Anthony *

Keshto Mukherjee Keshto Mukherjee (7 August 1925 – 2 March 1982) was an Indian actor and comedian. He was born in Kolkata,Bengal Presidency, British India. He specialised in comic drunkard roles in Hindi films. Though he was famous for his drunkard typecas ...

as Robert *

as Jaggu *

Mukri Mohammed Umar Mukri (5 January 1922 – 4 September 2000), popularly known as Mukri, was an Indian actor, who worked as a comedian in Hindi films. Born as Muhammad Umar Mukri in Uran, in Kokani Muslim Family. He started his film career with th ...

Soundtrack

To this movie all musics were composed by

Bappi Lahiri Bappi Aparesh Lahiri (born Alokesh Aparesh Lahiri; 27 November 1952 – 15 February 2022), also known as Bappi Da was an Indian singer, composer and record producer. He popularised the use of synthesised disco music in Indian music industry and ...

with lyrics by Anjaan.The song "Naa jaane Ek Nigah Nigah Mein" from Gundaraj was inspired from the film Taxi Chor's song " Vada Hain Kya. The song "Vaada Hain Kya" was partly sampled from Santa Esmeralda song "Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood".

References

* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081605/ * http://ibosnetwork.com/asp/filmbodetails.asp?id=Taxi+Chor

External links

* 1980 films 1980s Hindi-language films Films scored by Bappi Lahiri {{1980s-Hindi-film-stub